Sheer Frustration

This isn't about so much as about poor hubby. He has spent the last three days working his not so little tail off at what was meant to be an induction to a job, that he was promised was permanent 3 days a week

Yea right, all the way through, he was told he needed to be free to work minimal of three days a week, he would have to work 2 -8pm every day, and he would be paid expenses and £62 per each day worked. When he was sent for the job he was advised in the training period he would get £1000 a month then he would get £6.50 per customer from there on after. Come the final day of training, after paying to commute to the training every day of the three, he was then told he wouldn't get expenses until he had completed three surveys in training. Except each survey can take between 1-5 days work. Then they landed the big one, they can't guarantee the amount of work per week, the earliest he can start is in a weeks time and that is only two days work, and one third of his training. So in reality he could take up to 6 weeks to complete his training and in fact not make the £1000 in a month but instead it will take two months.

So the English translation is he has been scammed, and unless he sits around at their beck and call when they can be bothered to put him to work, he will never regain his expenditure. Then to make matters worse he has no contract with them so no come back to the company. So come Monday I am on the phone to try to get to the bottom of all this and find out if the employment agency knew and thus lied to he, or whether they have also been lied to. In the mean time hubby is now left demoralised and back at square one on his job search.

If you were to buy an item or hire a service this would be a breach of contract, but when it comes to employment there control is still in the hands of the employer, to do what they like, change the rules, and out and out lie. What is worse is the fact that the employee i.e. my husband has no contract with anyone so he can't do anything to recover the money lost let alone get the job he worked hard to get and was actually advised during the course he had.

That was yesterday and to be honest I thought that was the end of the incompetency in the world. Well I was proved wrong by the sheer lunacy of HSBC and the phone call I have just had from them, but I will save that for a blog on its own because that mess deserves a name and shame.